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Welcome
to the home of Kevin Chilcott's Royale Guitars
UPDATED: April 25th 2007 (04.25.07)
Andy Powell of
Wishbone Ash with one
of his Signature Royale Angel Vs
(Photo by Alan Fretten 2005)
OVERVIEW
This site is still under basic construction but hopefully it will soon host 'all
things
Royale',
please see the menu above, including the link to
the current models in
"Royale Present".
At the moment we have
our current selection of
Merchandise
in the "Royale Merch"
section, plus a little information on
our instruments built for
Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash.
Please use the menu below
to view these pages.
In the meantime there is also a small section dealing with the
Original
Royal Guitars which can be seen in
"Royal Past"
by clicking the link above, also for more detail... our original
Royal Guitars Website
carries a full history of the company, its guitars and their maker,
as well as information on the birth of this
new venture.
Click
HERE
to visit...
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New Royale Swordstress Special
III
For Sale - £2000
For more info and details please
CLICK
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For info on
Kahler Trems
please
CLICK
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NEW
ROYALE SWORDSTRESS CUSTOM
MODEL
Info in "ROYALE PRESENT" Section
Harmony Central Review
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NEWS
DECEMBER 2006
SHOP
Soon there
will be a small online shop on this site for
Royale Pickups, Kahlers,
Vibrolas and other 'bits and pieces' of
hardware.
If what you want is not listed - drop us a line anyway because we can
probably get it within a couple of weeks !
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From
NOVEMBER 2006
KAHLER TREMS
We are
starting to stock new
Kahler
trem units from this month...
Initially the new 7200 stud mount Hybrids which we
currently have in stock, followed by
7300 flat mount Hybrids along with Standard Arms,
Pro "finger tip" Control Arms and Palm Handles and
both Standard and Pro Quick Release string locks.
In the new Year will will be stocking the 2200 Stud Mount and and
2300 Flat Mount Pro Units.
All parts will be available in Chrome, Black and Gold.
We will be arranging pix of all the Kahler
products we will stock as they come in and will have a special
Kahler section on this site as well as
on the original "Kevin Chilcott Luthier" website.
If you do have
any questions or requests... Please drop us a line using the "Contact"
link above.
If we haven't got it - we'll try our best to get it for you.
For more details
click here
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AUGUST 2006
ROYALE
PICKUPS by Gemini
Royale Guitars are launching a new range of pickups this month:
We are bringing out a range of Pickups that are custom hand-wound for us
by Gemini.
The range includes Single coils,
'Fat' Single coils and
Humbuckers.
There is a "Link" to Gemini Pickups on the
"Links" page - click above.
Currently the range is:
VP-54 Kite and
VP-54 Red Kite - Single coils.
VP-52 Falcon and
VP-52 Fire Falcon - "Fat" Single coils.
VP-57 Merlin,
VP-59 Kestrel,
CP-86 Eagle, CP-87 Buzzard
& MP-97 Vulture - Humbuckers.
Additionally the VP-47 Hawk,
VP-49 Harrier and
VP-54 Black Kite single coils are
'in the pipeline' along with the
VP-58 Condor,
CP-86 Eagle Imperial,
MP-97 King Vulture &
MP-98 Vulturine - Humbuckers.
Later in the year we are also reintroducing the Classic
Cream Dream &
Dirt Box Humbuckers
that
we originally made back in the mid 1980s.
We will have more information up about all these pickups as soon as we
can.
If you do have any questions - please drop us an email through the
"Contact" link above.
First Royale & Last Royal
Photograph by Bob Greaves 2004
Andy Powell's Signature Angel Flying V (Problem
Child/"PC") from 2003 on the left.
Bob Greaves' Custom Electra MkII from 1989 on the right.
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NB: Thanks to
Bob Greaves
who has done all the hard work getting this site
together for us and starting it off. We will be adding new sections as we
go along.
We couldn't have done it without you Mate !
Photographs so far on this
site by:
Bob Greaves, Alan Fretten, Alan Perry, Andy Preece, Grahame
Roberts, Ian Routledge, Steve Koontz and Lyn Chilcott.
We will be adding more pix as soon as possible. |
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ROYALE GUITARS
Please Note:
All "original"
Royale Guitar, Bass & Pickup designs, names, pictures and pages of this
Website are the property of
Kevin & Linda Chilcott and are © Copyright
Protected.
This includes the "Royale" Guitar & Bass model names:
Angel, Desperado, Elektra, Huntress, Katalina, Khymera, Majenta,
Meduza, Phoenix, Razorback, Renegade,
Swordstress, Vigilante, Vixen, Warbird, Widowmaker, Zepher & Zodiak,
also M-Type, X-Type, Y-Type & Z-Type (2002).
Copyright © Kevin & Linda Chilcott 2002
and
Royale...Bird of Prey, Thunderbolt, Lightning & Valkyr Guitars & Basses
also
Chilkev 'Bitocaster', S-Type, T-Type, P-Type, J-Type, I-Type, M-Type,
Jag-Type, Jazz-Type & Junior-Type
Guitars & Basses.
Copyright © Kevin & Linda Chilcott 2003.
Royale Pickups
...model names:
Cream Dream & Dirt Box - Humbuckers.
Copyright © Kevin & Linda Chilcott 1986.
VP-47 Hawk, VP-49 Harrier, VP-54 White Kite, VP-54 Kite, VP-54 Red
Kite & VP-54 Black Kite
- Single Coils.
VP-52 Falcon, VP-52 Fire Falcon - "Fat" Single Coils.
VP-57 Merlin, VP-58 Condor, VP-59 Kestrel, CP-86 Eagle, CP-86 Eagle
Imperial, CP-87Buzzard,
MP-97 Vulture, MP-97 King Vulture & MP-98 Vulturine - Humbuckers.
Copyright © Kevin & Linda Chilcott 2006.
Royale Guitars
All Rights are Reserved
Photographs on this site taken by other individuals are their own property
and are used by permission.
All Trademarks (TM) are hereby acknowledged.
( Royale Guitars are based in... Wales UK )
To view the original Royal
Guitars website at www.kevinchilcott-luthier.co.uk
please click the link above or picture below:
Copyright
© Royale Guitars 2005 |